{"id":16076,"date":"2012-10-31T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=16076"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:04:46","slug":"ship-of-fools-artists-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=16076","title":{"rendered":"Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0From the Last Words by Heather O\u2019Neill and\u00a0\u00a0Jean-Paul Kelly
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 5 –\u00a0 18, 2012<\/strong>
\nToronto subway platform screens;
\nvideo boards at Yonge\/Richmond & Yonge\/Adelaide;
\ndigital billboard Gardiner\/Kipling
\nPATTISON ONESTOP<\/strong>
\nT: 416.762.7702
\nE: mnazar@idirect.ca
\nwww.onestopmedia.com<\/a><\/div>\n

Pattison Onestop and Cape Farewell Foundation co-present Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change<\/strong>, a multi-site urban screens project throughout Toronto addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a cultural lens, from November 5th to 18th, 2012.<\/p>\n

Responding to Cape Farewell Foundation<\/strong>\u2019s mandate to instigate a cultural response to climate change, Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change utilizes Pattison\u2019s advertising screens, and draws on the creativity of a range of artists to communicate on a metropolitan scale.<\/p>\n

Vanishing Glaciers, four stunning time-lapse videos by internationally acclaimed outdoor photographer James Balog, capture over 5 years of astonishing changes, dramatically documenting the ice melt of glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and arctic sea ice Norway. Vanishing Glaciers plays every 10 minutes on Pattison Onestop\u2019s network of subway platform screens across Toronto, bringing this powerful and vitally important work to over one million daily commuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIce matters.<\/strong> It\u2019s the place where we can see and hear and feel climate change in action. When ice melts, everyone \u2013 regardless of age or ideological persuasion \u2013 can understand what it means,\u201d states acclaimed photographer, James Balog.<\/em><\/p>\n

Award-winning Canadian novelist, Heather O\u2019Neill<\/em> (Lullabies for Little Criminals) and multi-medium artist, Jean-Paul Kelly<\/em> have collaborated to produce Last Words<\/strong>, a site-specific allegorical work for Pattison Outdoor billboards located at the entrance to buildings in Toronto\u2019s financial district \u2013 Yonge\/Adelaide and Yonge\/Richmond.<\/p>\n

Stressing the urgency and need for global climate care, pithy reminders written by Juno award-winning Canadian hip-hop star, Shad<\/em>, are presented on the strategically located west-end Pattison Outdoor digital billboard along the Gardiner Expressway at Kipling Ave.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis urban screens program is pioneering and Cape Farewell is excited to work with the Canadian writer Heather O\u2019Neill and poet Shad to vision the new, through the art-form of short digital imaginings. In addition, James Balog\u2019s awesome glacial time lapses shockingly state the speed of the impact of climate change on our frozen north,\u201d says David Buckland<\/em>, Cape Farewell founder and International Director.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is rare that I have the opportunity to be part of such an important project, one which increases our environmental literacy, and helps escalate the necessity of rethinking our future. I am very pleased to bring these powerful works to the Pattison screens,\u201d said Sharon Switzer<\/em>, Arts Programmer and Curator, Pattison Onestop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 5 – 18, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toronto subway platform screens and video boards<\/strong><\/p>\n

addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a cultural lens<\/p>\n

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